if you want recommendation for a super cheap tablet, try out the Veikk A50. I got one for free as part of a promo (VEIKK is a newer company so they do a lot of giveaways on their social media) and compared to my previous generation Intuos Pro M, it's basically the same thing, only for 60 bucks instead of 200+ or whatever mine costed. VEIKK's drivers aren't as pretty or refined as Wacom's and their pens don't have erasers on them like Wacoms, so you have to keep pressing a button to change between your pen and eraser instead of flipping the pen over, but it has the same active area, is more compact, the same amount of hotkeys, everything. I would still be using mine if I hadn't lost the cable, since it's a lot sleeker and more portable than the hulking giant that my Intuos is. I'm not gonna say that the VEIKK is better than the Intuos, because god knows it isnt and there are things that could be better, but feature-wise it does the same thing. Support was also very responsive to me, but I don't know if that's how they always are or because they wanted a review out of me, but I had an overall good experience with them. They did try to get me to take some of my gripes out of my review but I pushed real hard lmao
As for programs, I used Medibang for a while and I absolutely love it. I'd still be using it as my main program if I hadn't upgraded to Clip Studio Paint EX during their sales. They both have features for comics, but CSP is very heavily geared towards mangakas, animators, etc. and has many comic-oriented features like speech bubbles and panel templates, layout for printing fanzines... I suggest getting Medibang for now (it also has a phone app that you can sync your drawings to the pc version with,) and trying out the CSP demo to know if you can use it or eventually want to upgrade. It's good to make the most of what you can do with it BEFORE the 30 day trial runs out. Medibang is a really good program though, if I was working on a real big project or a commission, I might sketch on my phone, then send it to my computer and do lines, or I would send a big piece I had already lined into the cloud and do the flats on my phone while I was on the train.
I also suggest getting a drawing glove, but its optional. You can get a pack of two on amazon from various brands for ~10 bucks, but if you really dont want to then cutting off the top half of an old glove (cotton preferably, not something like leather that will drag more) will do the trick. They're meant to reduce drag on your tablet so your hand doesnt get caught and ruin your lines. I've used both and use my gloves pretty extensively since I have trouble with certain textures, so I swear by them, but if you have small hands like me then you're kinda fucked finding ones that fit you, since they come in one size usually unless you're getting a big name glove thats upwards of 20 bucks.
Don't go for a pen display as your first tablet. Just using a tablet in general has its own learning curve since you need to develop a slightly different sense of hand-eye coordination and the muscle memory, so you're going to suck ass when you first start using one. I was really young when I got my first wacom bamboo and that learning curve almost made me quit digital art completely. When you're more comfortable with the concept and you think a screen display will benefit you, then you can think about it.
Pen displays come in two forms: one that is basically just a computer monitor with extra stuff slapped on it, and one that is just a tablet, but with extra stuff slapped on it. The ones that are monitors are like regular tablets except they have a screen and shortcut keys sometimes. The ones that are tablets are separate beasts, running on an operating system and everything, they're just optimized for art. The latter are quite obviously wayy more expensive.
I adore my Intuos, but because Wacom has such a big monopoly (kind of) on the art tablet market their prices are super up there, IIRC they were the first if not one of the first companies to make pen tablets and such.